cheerful - Story 19835 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air thrummed with possibility. A sense of lightness filled Amelia as she watered her rose bushes, the morning dew glistening on the petals. A small smile never left her lips, and she breathed in deeply, savoring the fragrant scent of the blooms.

She found a small, locked metal box in the back of the linen closet, which she had never noticed before. Impulsively, she used a hairpin to pick the lock. Inside, nestled amongst her husband, Robert's, old keepsakes, was a passbook.

Amelia's breath caught in her throat. It was for a savings account, one she’d never seen before. A thrill of playful intrigue sparked within her. This day was just getting better and better.

Emotion: cheerful

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 4.13 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -1.19

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion cheerful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 cheerful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the cheerful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the cheerful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`la`	0.962
`de`	0.597
`!`	0.590
`excitedly`	0.589
`!".`	0.568

Suppressed:

`S`	-1.213
`L`	-0.693
`ness`	-0.492
`😞`	-0.425
`বারবার`	-0.422